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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Graduate Employability"”.
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Emotional Intelligence and Graduate Employability
… role played by emotional intelligence (EI) in graduate employability. It also investigates whether or not it is possible to teach EI within a Higher Education (HE) environment in order to develop these abilities in undergraduate students and enhance their employability potential. To evaluate …
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Student volunteering and graduate employability a study of the structural and motivational aspects of volunteering and their influence on graduate employability
… of volunteering on the development of perceived graduate employability amongst student and graduate volunteers at the University of Cape Town (N = 279). Path analysis revealed significant relationships between volunteerism and graduate employability, when facilitated through the development of …
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Enhancing student and graduate employability in the hospitality industry: A video project
… are placing greater emphasis on the ability of graduates to fit within their businesses (Pittaway & Thedham, 2005). Even though qualifications and skills are vital for selection, candidates should know how to set themselves apart from other candidates in interviews, and this can only be …
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Empowering the powerful: a critical discourse analysis of public discourse on graduate employability
This study explores the issue of graduate employability in Malaysia as construed in public discourse in English, a language of power in Malaysia. The term employability itself has many definitions depending on the requirements of government and industry, and in the case of Malaysia, the …
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Effectiveness of the internship programme as a strategy to improve graduate employability: case of Thulamela Local Municipality in South Africa
… a unique and innovative approach to help new graduates gain valuable experience for work-based practice. It enables interns to make connections in the fields aligned with chosen career paths and gives employers the opportunity to guide and evaluate the talent of prospective employees. The …
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Employability skills of new graduates and SMEs: A case study of the financial service industry in Lagos State, Nigeria.
… how SME employers experience and understand new graduate employability in Nigeria. The word employability is a difficult concept to define comprehensively. Therefore, past studies have produced a varied list of “employability skills”. Over previous decades interest in graduate employability has …
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Individual factors affecting the employability of Information Systems graduates in Cape Town, South Africa: Employed graduates and employer perspectives
Graduate employability has been a common subject among researchers, governments and higher education systems around the world. However, while there is a lot of information and numerous models that inform on graduate employability, there has been limited empirical research in this area. Furthermore, …
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How the University through its Police Student Volunteer scheme helped develop employability skills to prepare students for a career in the police service.
… there has been an increased drive to increase employability with the curriculum. The subject of graduate employability has been debated for over 25 years from the Dearing Report to the Wilson Review, through to the Advance HE Student Success Framework Series. Whilst student and graduate …
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Assessing the applicability of student-based brand equity constructs in university institution preference in Ghana
… valid face-to-face in-depth interviews with undergraduate students selected from four universities were used while the quantitative study used 625 self-administered questionnaires from undergraduate students from twelve universities. Thematic analysis was used for the qualitative data while for …
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Emerging trends and influences in Ghanaian hospitality industry education and employability
Whilst the scale of the employability needs of hospitality graduates is well known in developed countries, very little is known about this with regard to Ghana. There is concern in Ghana that the educational system is failing to produce employable graduates. This problem is more acute in …
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The influence of human capital factors, individual factors and study characteristics on graduates’ full-time employment and perceived overqualification
… overqualification among Australian university graduates. Using Graduate Outcomes Survey data, the study finds certain aspects of human capital (quality of courses, mode of study) and individual factors (gender, international/domestic student status) contribute significantly to graduates’ …
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The Career destination of Office Administration Graduates in Labour Market: A Case Study of Selected TVET College in Limpopo Province of South Africa
… disciplines, with many studies focusing on graduate employment outcomes. However, limited research has explored the career destinations of graduates from Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges, despite the sector receiving significant investment and experiencing high …
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Higher education, employability and future managers: the case of tourism management undergraduates in the UK
… analyses the relationship between undergraduate tourism management education, the tourism industry’s entry-level managerial turnover problems and the employability prospects of the current cohort of Tourism Management Undergraduates (TMUs) in the UK. Using a concurrent multilevel mixed …
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Employment and Employability: The Experiences and Perceptions of Deaf Graduates
… there is a dearth of literature regarding the employability experiences of deaf graduates. This thesis presents an exploration of deaf graduate employability within the context of successive government policies designed to encourage HEIs to enhance the employability skills of their graduates. …
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Infusing critical thinking into an employability skills program: The effectiveness of an immersion approach
… economy have placed renewed emphasis on graduate employability and the development of higher-order thinking skills. Preparing graduates for the workplace requires new instructional approaches to develop a matrix of interrelated skills. This study investigates an immersion approach to …
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Designers Who Don’t Draw: An Investigation into Sketch Inhibition among Undergraduate Designers
Sketch inhibition in undergraduate designers is a phenomenon widely acknowledged by educators, yet one garnering little attention from the academy. Defined as a reluctance or inability to use sketching effectively, it impacts negatively upon design ideation and the representation, evaluation and …
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Volunteering in the higher education curriculum: the politics of policy, practice and participation
… the extent to which the dominant discourse of ‘employability’ is foregrounded in government policy directives, and the pressures thus placed on the university management of Wrottesley to respond effectively to first destination scores (DHLE). ‘Employability’ in this sense is understood as a …
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A hermeneutic phenomenological investigation of the lived experiences of educators facilitating higher-order thinking skills in Higher Education
… further petitioned by global business demand, graduate employability reports claim highly qualified graduates lack these skills (Kosbie et al., 2017). Evidence also suggests educators feel insufficiently prepared to support HOTS (e.g., Retnawati et al., 2018). HOTS-themed research predominantly …
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An investigation of implementation, adoption and use of technology for enhancing students’ CoreLife Skills in a vocational institute : A Case Study informed by Actor-Network Theory
With the increasing emphasis on developing graduate employability skills, termed as CoreLife Skills in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and growing use of technology in education; this research investigates the assemblage of CoreLife Skills through technological innovation in a vocational education …
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Identity capital and graduate employment: an investigation into how access to various forms of identity capital relates to graduate employment
… employment outcomes. The dearth of research into graduates' personal circumstances which contribute to whether these expectations translate into reality was the starting point for this PhD thesis. Specifically, the thesis considered the role of identity development for success in the employment …
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